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Andrew
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Hi, how do I get the links section to open a new window?
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Andrew K.
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exaurdon
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As Dirk says, opening the an internal site page in a new window is not generally recommended, as it is not expected by users (if they really want the page to open in a new window, they can always right click the link and open in a new window/tab). In the file Dirk mentioned, I believe you would want to insert:
target=\"blank\"
after the href=\"url_stuff\" part of the link
A more common approach, which still should be used carefully, is to have each link on the links page open in a new window, so your page stays avaliable in the background. This should only be used though, in cases where you were sure the user would be returning to your site again. Don\'t overuse these, especially since more and more people are blocking \'pop-up\' windows, so these links will fail for those people, and tey will have to manually follow the link anyway.
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